Verbs that use essere in Italian present perfect tense

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Essere Verbs

In general, intransitive and reflexive verbs, as well as impersonal verbs and verbs describing a change of state or an evolution of some sorts, take essere as the auxiliary verb in the passato prossimo. These past participles must agree
with the subject in gender and number by changing the final vowel. Irregular past participles are highlighted below.

to go

andare

andato

to arrive

arrivare

arrivato

to suffice, be enough

bastare

bastato

to be necessary

bisognare

bisognato

to cost

costare

costato

to depend

dipendere

dipeso

to regret, upset

dispiacere

dispiaciuto

to become, grow, turn

diventare

diventato

to last

durare

durato

to enter

entrare

entrato

to exist

esistere

esistito

to be

essere

stato

to arrive / to succeed

giungere

giunto

to get old

invecchiare

invecchiato

to die

morire

morto

to be born

nascere

nato

to be necessary

occorrere

occorso

to leave

partire

partito

to be pleasing [to like]

piacere

piaciuto

to rain

piovere

piovuto

to stay, remain

restare

restato

to go/come back in, return

rientrare

rientrato

to remain, stay

rimanere

rimasto

to return

ritornare

ritornato

to succeed

riuscire (a)

riuscito

to seem

sembrare

sembrato

to serve, be of use

servire

servito

to disappear

sparire

sparito

to stay, be

stare

stato

to happen

succedere

successo

to come back/return

tornare

tornato

to go out

uscire

uscito

to be worth

valere

valso

to come

venire

venuto

Sono nato a Torino nel 1965. I was born in Turin in 1965.Cosa è successo? What happened?Lei è stato malata ma niente di grave. She was sick, but it was nothing serious.

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are also a few verbs (some with irregular past participles) that use essere
as an auxiliary when they are intransitive (no direct object), but avere
when they are transitive (with a direct object).

Sono andato can mean I went, I was
going, or I did go. Remember that -o is masculine and
-a is feminine. The -i ending indicates all males or males and females;
whereas the -e ending indicates only females.